“This is an excellent case study for an issue that will probably arise more and more,” said Joseph Bennett, a biologist at Carleton University in Ottawa who was not involved in the work but whose lab specializes in decisions related to conservation and biodiversity.
“Fisheries stocks have collapsed in other places as well,” Dr. Bennett said. “As those stocks recover, often with sustainable Indigenous management, I suspect that there will be a clamouring for reopening of commercial non-Indigenous fisheries.”